AWARD
A -- RECOVERY - AIRSTAR TESTBED DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT
- Notice Date
- 3/1/2010
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 144, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton,VA 23681-0001
- ZIP Code
- 23681-0001
- Solicitation Number
- NNL10AR15Q
- Archive Date
- 2/16/2011
- Point of Contact
- Maxine Batina, Contract Specialist, Phone 757-864-7352, Fax 757-864-9097, Email Maxine.G.Batina@nasa.gov - Jason E Taylor, Contract Specialist, Phone 757-864-5340, Fax 757-864-8863, Email jason.e.taylor@nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
-
Maxine Batina
(Maxine.G.Batina@nasa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- NNL10AM17T
- Award Date
- 2/25/2010
- Awardee
- Swales and Associates, Inc. dba ATK Space Systems, Inc. 5050 Powder Mill RoadBeltsville, MD 20705-1971
- Award Amount
- $333949
- Description
- Recovery - NASA LaRC issued a Task Order to ATK Space Systems, Inc. against theIDIQ contract entitled Technology, AirSTAR Testbed Development and Support. The NASAAirborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research (AirSTAR) facility includes a suite ofcomplex subscale flight vehicle systems and a suite ofcomplex hardware and software systems in its Mobile Operations Station (MOS). Thesesystems were designed to conduct research through both simulation and flight test ofsubscale remotelypiloted aircraft. The purpose of the research is to advance the state of the art oftechnologies (e.g. flight control theories) that can be used to reduce the number ofairplane accidents fatalities due to loss of control or other related adverse conditions.This purpose aligns with the goals of the NASAAviation Safety Programs Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) and IntegratedResilient Aircraft Control (IRAC) projects. The AirSTAR system will enable flightexperiments on remotely piloted vehicles to explore off-nominal portions of the flightenvelope that are associated with loss of control (LOC) incidents and damage conditions.Such an experimental capability is critical to the design and testing of controlalgorithms that can mitigate damage and recover from upset conditions,as well as other LOC precursors. The vehicles range from commercially available radiocontrol models to custom built and dynamically scaled models of full-scale aircraft. Thesimpler models represent generic flight characteristics and allow for parametric testingover a range of conditions. The dynamically scaled models represent specific flightcharacteristics of full-scale aircraft and have application in validating technologiesfor these vehicles. The Contractor shall perform tasks toprepare aircraft for flight operations in accordance with the attached deploymentschedule. The tasks include mechanical design, loads analysis, airframe modifications,assembly, fabrication, integration, systems and component testing (e.g. updates topropulsive system, control surface servos, landinggear, inertias, etc.). This effort is funded by ARRA funding and is in support of theNASA Aeronautics Research Directorate Aviation Safety Program.
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- Record
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